The day before we spoke, Daniel Craig was on set recreating iconic movie scenes.īen’s taste for a hectic life dates back to his time in Leeds, when he was President of the Jewish Society while working hard on his Broadcasting Studies course that proved a good grounding for his career: “You picked up a camera, filmed, edited stuff and got your hands dirty.
Fellow passengers have included Michelle Obama, Madonna and Stevie Wonder. I literally couldn’t escape it!”Īs producer on The Late Late Show, Ben juggles a host of big-name guests, and gave the world the phenomenon of Carpool Karaoke, where Corden and his celebrity guests sing a selection of hits while driving through LA. They flew to Mexico, but removing yourself from something the whole world was talking about proved harder than he’d thought: “We walked into our villa feeling all relaxed, but as I turned into the reception and looked at the TV screen, there was a huge advert in Mexican for the Friends reunion. Describing the latter as “the hardest show I’ve ever done, the only one that really gave me anxiety”, he decided that once Friends was delivered, he would find time to unwind with his wife and two young daughters. Meanwhile, at Warner Studios in Los Angeles, three male and three female A-List actors were filming the last episode of Friends – ‘The One Where They Say Goodbye’.įast forward 17 years, and Ben’s success producing hit shows like The X Factor, The Brit Awards and The Michael McIntyre Chat Show had catapulted him to the helm of Friends: The Reunion – one of the biggest TV events of the decade.īeing responsible for such an eagerly anticipated project could give anyone sleepless nights, but Ben was simultaneously juggling his regular job as Executive Producer of James Corden’s Late Late Show and a mid-pandemic Grammy Awards. In May 2004, Ben Winston was one of six students, three male and three female, sharing a house and preparing for their finals at the University of Leeds.
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